"The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built."
"When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned."
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Source: Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.76, Princeton University Press
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